Mike Bolan
Just for interest, here’s the result of some research I’ve been doing that organises global countries by the approximate time that it would take to repay their debts. Figures I used were from CIA World Factbook using External debt as the amount, population, productivity of each person as a $/yr figure fraction of GDP. I divided the debt by the population to get a debt per person figure. Then I divided that figure by the productivity per person. The chart shows how countries stack up by how long it would take to repay their debts without adding any interest charges.Download:Country_facts_debts.pdf